Tag: Maine

Meet Virginia Oliver who started trapping lobster off Maine’s rocky coast, when World War II was a distant event in the future, and women harvesting lobsters was a rare sighting. Almost a century later at age 101, she’s still doing it. The oldest lobster fisher in the state and perhaps the oldest one in the […]

A landlord recently got a shock of his life when he found some tarantulas and a python that had been left behind by a tenant in Auburn, Maine. The landlord had to arrange for a rescuer to take the creatures away. The rescuer Drew Desjardins found that four of 19 tarantulas had died and that […]